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With the force of a rising tide and the pulse of ancestral memory, Ruby Ibarra’s Bakunawa has not only won the 2025 NPR Tiny ...
Ibarra and her band's performance of "Bakunawa" impressed the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest judging panel, earning high praise from ...
The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra. A research scientist and fiercely poetic ...
Host Juana Summers talks with Ruby Ibarra, the Bay Area rapper who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest. Her winning entry, "Bakunawa," is inspired by Filipino mythology and the birth of her first child.
Filipino-American rapper Ruby Ibarra has been named the winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, standing out among nearly ...
Bay Area rapper Ruby Ibarra has been crowned the winner of this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Ibarra, who grew up in San ...
NPR Music's Robin Hilton announces the name of this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner. Every year since 2015, a different ...
The Bay Area’s Ruby Ibarra takes the top prize in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest. She catches up with NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai. And we're now adding another one to the list. Ruby Ibarra just won NPR's Tiny ...
The Fairfield artist will embark on the Tiny Desk Contest on the Road tour, which includes a stop in Petaluma on Friday, June ...
The Bay Area rapper will embark on a 10-city tour this summer, with stops in Los Angeles, Petaluma, Portland, Chicago, ...
Ruby Ibarra's 'Bakunawa' has her rapping in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English backed by the super astig all-woman band of Pinay Voltron ...